Le Monde ditches Gordon Brown, sticks pig’s nose on him

Bad enough the Guardian throwing in its lot with the Comment is Free mob, but even the French left establishment seems to be deserting the Sheriff of Rochdale, who is heading rapidly down this page. Looks like a superimposed Flash-type console, but ain’t. Strange.

Re Mandelson: if someone else can arrange a stake, I’ll procure a large supply of Spanish garlic. (The story that Count Dracula died ordering a garlic steak from a French waiter untrained in homophones is, of course, untrue.)

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Last updated 01/05/2010

This post pre-dates my organ-grinding days, and may be imported from elsewhere.

British General Elections 2010 (2):

Conservative Party (1): Conservative Party may refer to:

David Cameron (4): David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016.

Dracula (3): Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

Gordon Brown (4): James Gordon Brown is a British politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.

Guardian (5): Guardian may refer to:

Homophone (7):

Kaleboel (4307):

Labour Party (1): Labour Party or Labor Party may refer to:

Le Monde (1): Le Monde is a French daily afternoon newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition.

Liberal Democrat Party (1):

Nick Clegg (2): Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.

Peter Mandelson (3): Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, is a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel.He served as Member of Parliament for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004 and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

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